Hippo Artz

Loving

30 x 24 x 1.5"

Acrylic Paint on Stretched Canvas

$4000

She offers affection openly, willingly, and with reckless abandon. Her exposed body reveals the source of her generosity. Her smile holds the richness and risk of connection. Her heart is an offering of love that nourishes and unifies, while asking what remains for the woman who gives.

Artist's Statement:

My work explores internal landscapes shaped by pressure, expectation, and endurance. I am interested in the way pressure accumulates; how subtle shifts compound until what appears stable begins to strain, fracture, or transform. Each piece maps a psychological terrain that is felt before it is explained.

I center Black women within emotional and psychological spaces that move between surreal imagery and intimate moments. My figures resist resolution. They remain present, contradictory, and aware, holding tension between vulnerability and control.

Color and form function psychologically rather than descriptively. Distortion, repetition, altered anatomy, and fragmentation allow what is carried silently to surface. I interrogate expectation as structure, strength as obligation, and composure as performance. Through saturated color and fractured form, I make visible burden, surveillance, endurance, and the forces that reshape the body from within and without.

Rather than resolving that tension, my paintings remain inside it so that the strain, rupture, transformation, and ongoing negotiation between holding, breaking, and becoming.